The side of the Bahamas you don't see on Instagram
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- I've spent the last few days on holiday on the island of Great Exuma in the Bahamas. While I was there I noticed a side to the Bahamas that you don't really see on people's socials when they go on holiday. A lot of abandoned stuff.
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This is the most relaxed I have ever seen you. You truly look like a different person. Enjoyed the video.
More Lucy Brown, please.
This is by far your best video.Lucy.Everything about it is beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
Top notch cinematography, crisp edits, and very heartfelt commentary. Keep up the stellar work Lucy!
Hell yes more awesomeness from this legend! Cheers!
Great video, Loved the Turtles and the views of the abandoned buildings. One of the best videos.
it is the same in every country you go to
its always the nice places they show you never the shit if they did they would never get another visitor
I am sorry Lucy I didnt watch this one earlier, I love it, perfect location too for some great artistic photos of paradise
Cheers
Zachary Reynolds
Caboolture QLD Australia
Gonna join the choir here and say that this video is a serious step-up. You keep this up, Lucy, and you'll soon be one of the great names of youtube/television style creators world wide.
Please keep it up!
Lucy, i mean it seriously, you are on the clear way of becoming a TH-cam sensation, keep throwing us this amazing videos! You are gonna be a start soon!
Awesome video Lucy, would love to see you do more of these travel type blogs. You have a real talent & could really expand your video genres, it was refreshing to see some totally different content. Have a wonderful holiday. Much love from Switzerland :)
I have stayed on Andros, Eleuthera and Exuma, the latter at a great little Augusta Bay resort a stone's throw from the sadly abandoned "cartel" place. In many cases, cash flow is the main issue, and construction materials are a challenge due to everything having to be imported. Also, many property owners, when they run out of cash, simply down tools until they can afford the next phase. But the Out Islands folk generally the friendliest this Canadian has encountered there as well as in Barbados and Antigua.
I wonder if the turtle is like "Hey fishy, I've told you once, I'm not going to tell you again, bugger off and stop following me!"
I’m happy i found this channel ! Great stuff Lucy 👍👍
Lovely content from our lovely Lucy. I wish you all the best as think you are brilliant.
Thank You for showing the side that most of us do not even think of. Great work Lucy. Cheers from the Canadian Rockies l*l
Lots of abandoned homes/buildings on Grand Bahama outside of Freeport. Whenever I saw them, I referred to them as "broken dreams".
Awesome stuff Lucy. You are destined to become a great filmmaker. You must do more travel vlogs!!
Very very lucky! I do hope you enjoy the holiday!
Especially given that I wouldn’t risk going abroad until 2022…
Hurricane Dorian hit the Bahamas really bad and it was only 2 years ago, which would explain why there is a lot of abandoned stuff.
Wow!! Just WOW!!!! Thanks Lucy!!!!
I do wonder if the reason why so much stuff is abandoned is the price of removing it off the Islands.. Glad you have had a chance for a bit of a holiday and sharing some wonderful scenery with us. So nice to see the ratio of views to likes too. Cheers.
What a fantastic video!!!! The cinematography of this channel is superb as always!!! Also the framing of you talking in front of the pool was super cool. Thank you for the awesome video!
Over the years I have become a fan of checking out abandoned places. Zzyzzyx road in SoCal, Desert Center in AZ, etc. This video makes me want to go to the Bahamas. Thank you Lucy!!
I think in the most part people care, they just don’t have the resources or funding to remove and clear a lot of that stuff. We live in the British Virgin Islands and sat through cat 5 hurricane Irma 200+ mph wind, 4 years later there’s still abandoned stuff everywhere. In the Caribbean there is a large disparity of wealth it is what is sadly 🌴
Thank you. This was a remarkable video. Excellent work. Both halves have been expertedly done. Great work
Lucy “nothing ever came”
Hurricanes “hold my beer…”
Cannot beat the behind the scenes content you provide. Even as far as the Bahamas. I appreciate what you do.
Nice video Lucy. This is typical for a lot of places. The tourist areas are always well kept and clean. Other examples that I have personally seen are Puerto Rico and Dom Rep. Once your away from the main tourist stream area you see the reality of how a lot of the local people live.
This is the best delivery you've ever given. You sound very natural in this video, none of that strange uplift at the end of sentences or words. Perfect
I love the subject. Thanks for sharing. If you have more footage of the abandoned things in the Bahamas, please do share, this is really interesting
Looks like an amazing place. I'd love to go explore those abandoned places. Reminds me of being in Fuertaventura 35 years ago and I saw this massive abandoned hotel complex with swimming pools and everything. It was huge.
Queen Lucy nails it again!!! Perfect vid girl, keep on keeping on... and as always, Cheers from Canada!!!
Amazing quality and very clear footage
Great video Lucy. I’m wondering if some of the resort projects stopped because they realized with rising sea levels due to climate change, they would be under water in 25 to 50 years. Love your videos.
One of my favourite places in the world! My family all have vacation homes there and it is actually a great place to explore as you are finding out. Enjoy your vacation Lucy.
come and visit Detroit on your next vacation, the water is lovely here, too.
First time comment from Canada, avid watcher and your adhoc Bermuda vid is Spectacular! 4K video is super detailed and captivating. We'll done Lucy, love the off road bit too hehe Donovan
Lovely video! Thank you for sharing. 😁
Thanks for interrupting you holiday to post this awesome video....cheers and stay safe 💜
Stunning video, Lucy. Nicely done.
Well done, Lucy. Excellent! Thank you.
Wow - thanks for this. Just think of all the stories waiting to be told....
Enjoy the every moment of beautiful weather clean and fresh air of Bahamas 🇧🇸
Appreciate the insights, Lucy!
Thanks for sharing, when I was a kid I was lucky enough to go to the Bahamas and I think the coolest stuff was the old pirate history and abandon stuff like you were saying, I would have gone like 15 years ago tho7h so it look a bit different
What a fascinating video....I thank you
Really cool tune at the end of the video - Can you say who it is?
Very rare to see an honest travel video. This was superb. Just goes to show its not always paradise in paradise.
Every time a new video appears on this channel I know I'm gonna enjoy it. Good shots, nice editing.
Lucy, I got 'one-year-worth-of-supply' of beautiful desktop backgrounds from the last 200 seconds of this video! Great job.
More debris just to get the idea of what you were talking about. Yet the video and the views just amazing
This is how a vacation review should be. The good and somewhat bad sides, great job.
I like your videos, it's amazing how they improve when James May isn't in them! I was in the Bahamas when I was a kid and stayed at spectacular hotel, just recently found out, it's abandoned and most of what was great around it is gone now too. Sad.
You are getting better with every upload!
The way you have your hair on this vlog looks great, have a nice holiday, Lucy. 👍
Just u and your hand tonight
you should wear your hair pulled back over your ears more often, it shows the shape of your face and makes your hair look more interesting. I hope you don’t regard this as sexist; you are after all a videographer (a good one) and a PRESENTER of your own work, you need to look your best. Keep up the good work !
Could you do a more detailed video of the abandoned stuff? I thought that was very interesting, another great vid
Beautiful place, beautiful photography . A travel series next ? Maybe tie it in with The Grand Tour. “Lochdown from above” , Deserted Scotland….
The Grand Tour needs a photographer like you . They’ve always been been good a photographing cars but no imagination apart from that
Great stuff Lucy. 👍👍👍 Cheers
Awesome video!! Thanks so much for sharing!
You should do more travel videos. Thats a great video.
Started with a sandwich now were here learning about the Bahamas, good stuff keep it up
Thank you for sharing with us!
I lived in Cyprus for a while back in 2004 and it was a similar story there. Hotels, apartment buildings and holiday complexes that were half finished and abandoned because money ran out or interest was lacking in the specific location. Slightly off the beaten track from the "touristy" areas, so most will have never seen it!
Loved the video Lucy, solid take!
Beautiful views!
Great insight. Thank you
That was very well edited and shot. Have a great holiday !
Stunning Video Lucy
Excellent video, Lucy, reminds me of when I was growing up and watching Whickers World in the 1970's, Here's a thought, create a playlist, call it Lucy's World and put your travel vlogs in there. Be well and enjoy the break :) x
This is soooo beautiful, best video!
Epic views enjoy your holiday.
Nice work Luce, unexpected subject, presented with feeling.
You might consider doing your pieces to camera sitting in future, it relaxed you and looked great.
100 percent Bahamian Approved!!!
Good for you. Enjoy your holiday!
Hurricane Irma and Maria a couple of years ago hit the area hard.
Perfect! We were there in June and thought exactly the same
This is glorious and I’m so glad someone else noticed the lack of infrastructure
I kind of want to see more of this abandoned stuff. Seems cool.
That song at the end sounded so much like "Blinded by your Grace" by Stormzy
That was not a good film. That was absolutely fantastic. Thank you Lucy.
Hey Lucy! Welcome to our home! Thanks for highlighting some of the realities that we face as locals here. If you're still here lets link up!
You are one of the great videographers of this age if I do say!
Great pictures - both the good and bad part.
Dang! I really enjoyed this upload
Good video Lucy!!
Lucy, did you think when you started with DriveTribe that you'd ever be going to the Bahamas to film a video like this?
Excellent. More like this please.
Nice video! Lovely footage!
Excellent thank you. 👍
Tropical weather plays a big part in it all
Lucy, I'm such a big fan fromTexas!
"I wasn't going to film a video while I was here" *records amazing footage*
Nice to see a side to Lucy that we don't normally see. If that was all shot by you.. impressive
Nice one Lucy! We see similar things here in China, especially where buildings are concerned. The reasons are varied but could include the death of the original owner, imprisonment as you mentioned, cash flow problems etc. It is sad to see but somehow I get perverse pleasure out of seeing nature reclaim everything.
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Thanks Lucy! It's good to see this side of a place that people don't see because the focus is usually on the beautiful or touristic side of a place like The Bahamas. I can see you're not trying to paint a negative picture of The Bahamas in this video, even though it's sad that these things happen; you're showing us this other side of The Bahamas does exist. A great example is Indigo Traveller, a TH-camr from New Zealand, who visits some of the least visited places on Earth (Libya most recently). In his videos, he aims to show all sides of a place he visits, whether it has a good or bad reputation in the media. I hope to see more videos like this from you 👌
Great choice on playing M83 - Outro.
Amazing video!
Holiday suits you. You’re coming across almost as cool as James.
Off to live on the Bahamas then 🤣🤣🤣
Well hey even with the sadness of the abandoned stuff. Maybe for drive tribe you could take some of those back. If you find a cool car or so you could take it home. Give it new life and end the abandonment of even one object. That would be really fun to see.